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Dickens, Charles. To [addressee], [date of letter]. Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship). [URL of individual letter], [date of access].

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1851-1860

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The Daily News

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To SAMUEL MORLEY,1 [24 JUNE 1855]

Mention in To Joseph Paxton, 26 June 1855. Date: the Sunday before the letter to Paxton.

1. Samuel Morley (1809-86; Dictionary of National Biography), Chairman of the Administrative Reform Association; wealthy textile manufacturer, liberal politician and leading nonconformist; became proprietor of Daily News, Liberal MP and strong supporter of Gladstone 1868-85; Treasurer, Congregationalist Board of Education. See Pilgrim Letters 7, p. 646 and To Joseph Paxton, 26 June 1855.